Engelbert of
Cleves
Kleve (; traditional ; ; ; ; ; Low Rhenish: ''Kleff'') is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine. From the 11th century onwards, Cleves was capital of a county and later a duchy ...
,
Count of Nevers
The counts of Nevers were the rulers of the County of Nevers, in France, The territory became a duchy in the peerage of France in 1539 under the dukes of Nevers.
History
The history of the County of Nevers is closely connected to the Duchy of Bu ...
(26 September 1462 – 21 November 1506) was the younger son of
John I, Duke of Cleves
John I, Duke of Cleves, Count of Mark (16 February 1419 – 5 September 1481). Jean de Belliqueux (warlike), was Duke of Cleves and Count of Mark.
Life
John was the son of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves, Mary ...
and
Elizabeth of Nevers, only surviving child of
John II, Count of Nevers
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Secon ...
.
In 1481, Engelbert was sent with a large army to the
Bishopric of Utrecht by his brother
John II, Duke of Cleves
John II, "The Babymaker", Duke of Cleves, Count of Mark, ( German: Johann II. "der Kindermacher", Herzog von Kleve, Graf von Mark) (13 April 1458 – 15 March 1521) was a son of John I, Duke of Cleves and Elizabeth of Nevers. He ruled Cleve ...
where they successfully ousted
David of Burgundy
David of Burgundy (c. February 142616 April 1494) was the bishop of Utrecht from 1456. The illegitimate son of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, David was made bishop by his father in an attempt to enforce more centralised Burgundian control ove ...
. But after the
Siege of Utrecht (1483) he had to flee, and Utrecht returned to the control of Burgundy.
Engelbert married Charlotte of Bourbon-Vendôme (1474-1520), daughter of
John VIII, Count of Vendôme, circa 1489. They had three children :
*
Charles II, Count of Nevers, married
Marie of Albret, Countess of Rethel
* Louis of Cleves (1494-1545), Count of
Auxerre
Auxerre ( , , Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Auchoirre'') is the capital (Prefectures in France, prefecture) of the Yonne Departments of France, department and the fourth-largest city in the Burgundy historical region southeast of Par ...
(1543-1545), married (1542) to
Catherine d'Amboise
Catherine d'Amboise (; 1475–1550) was a prose writer and poet of the French Renaissance. She wrote both verse and novels, including ''Book of the Prudent and Imprudent'' 'Livre des Prudents et Imprudents''(1509) and ''Fainting Lady's Complaint a ...
, daughter of
Charles I d'Amboise, widow of Christophe de Tournon and Philibert de Beaujeu;
* François of Cleves († 1545), Abbot of Tréport, Prior of Saint-Éloi in Paris
Engelbert became Count of
Nevers
Nevers ( , ; , later ''Nevirnum'' and ''Nebirnum'') is a city and the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Nièvre Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in central France. It was the pr ...
and
Eu in 1491 upon the death of his maternal grandfather
John II, Count of Nevers
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Secon ...
. His eldest brother
John II John II may refer to:
People
* John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (1455–1499)
* John II Casimir Vasa of Poland (1609–1672)
* John II Comyn, Lord of Badenoch (died 1302)
* John II Doukas of Thessaly (1303–1318)
* John II Komnenos (1087–114 ...
(1458–1521) inherited Cleves.
Ancestors
References
Sources
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* Jacques Dupont, Jacques Saillot: ''Cahiers de Saint Louis.'' Verlag Jacques Dupont, Angers 1976, S. 267.
1462 births
1506 deaths
Counts of Nevers
16th-century peers of France
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